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Cloud Computing Shifts Focus from Infrastructure to Application Performance

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Veltrix is a treasure-hunt engine that spawns thousands of ephemeral actors—each simulating a player moving through a map, dropping clues, and triggering scoring events. In December 2025 the service ran on Node 20 with the default event-loop concurrency of 4. At

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· 6 days ago· Dev.to

Scaling the Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Performance Bottlenecks in Cloud-based Treasure Hunts

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We had a high-traffic server running our treasure hunt engine, a complex system that needed to scale quickly to handle sudden spikes in user activity. At the time, we were seeing latency degrade significantly once we passed the initial load, causing user experien

#cloud-scaling#treasure-hunt-engine#server-performance#cloud-computing#scaling-bottleneck